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Mar. 12: Study: Circumcision Might Not Prevent HIV Transmission Among MSM | |
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While studies in Africa have shown that circumcised heterosexual men are as much as 60 percent less likely than their uncircumcised peers to contract HIV from female partners, a new three-year study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that circumcision does not necessarily prevent transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Western countries, Reuters reports.
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Mar. 12: New York City Activists Rally Against Proposed HIV/AIDS Cuts | |
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AIDS activists groups are protesting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to cut 248 of the 850 HIV/AIDS Service Administration (HASA) case managers in an effort to close a $4.9 billion deficit in the city’s 2011 fiscal year budget, Gay City News reports. HASA is a unit of the Human Resources Administration (HRA).
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Mar. 11: Female Condom Campaign Urges Chicago Men and Women to “Put a Ring On It” | |
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Taking a lyrical cue from Beyoncé Knowles’s Grammy-winning hit, “Single Ladies,” a coalition of Chicago health organizations is encouraging female condom use by asking men and women to “put a ring on it!” through its Chicago Female Condom Campaign. The campaign launch was timed with the observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10.
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Mar. 11: Black Churches Recognize National Prayer Week for the Healing of AIDS | |
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This week, 26 Rochester, New Yorkbased black churches pledged their support against AIDS in the African-American community during National Prayer Week for the Healing of AIDS, 13 WHAM News reports. African Americans make up 51 percent of all new HIV/AIDS cases in the United States, while black women represent 61 percent of new cases among women.
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Mar. 10: March 10 Is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day | |
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Wednesday, March 10, marks the fifth annual Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, coordinated by the Office on Women’s Health to educate women and girls about HIV/AIDS prevention and testing. A woman tests positive every 35 minutes in the United States, and 50 percent of the estimated 33.4 million people living with the virus worldwide are women.
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